crown-engine/engine/core/filesystem/TextReader.h

/*
Copyright (c) 2013 Daniele Bartolini, Michele Rossi
Copyright (c) 2012 Daniele Bartolini, Simone Boscaratto

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*/

#include "Types.h"

namespace crown
{

class File;

/// A reader that offers a convenient way to read text from a File
///
/// @ingroup Filesystem
class TextReader
{
public:

	//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	TextReader(File& file) : m_file(file)
	{
	}

	/// Reads characters from file and stores them as a C string
	/// into string until (size-1) characters have been read or
	/// either a newline or the End-of-File is reached, whichever
	/// comes first.
	/// A newline character makes fgets stop reading, but it is considered
	/// a valid character and therefore it is included in the string copied to string.
	/// A null character is automatically appended in str after the characters read to
	/// signal the end of the C string.
	size_t read_string(char* string, size_t size)
	{
		char current_char;
		size_t bytes_read = 0;

		while(!m_file.end_of_file() && bytes_read < size - 1)
		{
			m_file.read(&current_char, 1);
			string[bytes_read] = current_char;

			bytes_read++;

			if (current_char == '\n')
			{
				break;
			}
		}

		string[bytes_read] = '\0';

		return bytes_read;
	}

private:

	File& m_file;
};

} // namespace crown